NIH R01 · 2025
SCH: Smart Auscultation for Pulmonary Diagnostics and Imaging
The stethoscope is a ubiquitous technology used to listen to sounds from the chest in order to assess lung or heart conditions. Despite its universal use, it is considered an unreliable diagnosis tool due to a number of limitations: masking by noise, need for highly trained users and ear to interpret lung sounds and subjectivity in interpreting auscultation sounds. Still, one of the reasons auscultations are a staple of clinical screening is that sound is one the cheapest, fastest and most readily available biomarkers. The simple fact of breathing involves sound traveling through chest cavities that will be affected by presence of obstructions or abnormalities. While the signature of these…
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